On Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:24:48 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I have no expertise to decide on that matter, > but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by > default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop > usage), no?
I don't think that has anything to do with performance or safety. Instead: 1. Red Hat suffers from a serious case of Not Invented Here Syndrome. They do good work, but they have that little eccentricity too. ReiserFS was funded in large part by SuSE, therefore RH are ill-inclined to use it. Many distros follow Red Hat's lead, very few go with SuSE to wherever SuSE is going. Who knows why Debian made their choice - it' s probably as simple as ext3 traces it roots back much further than Reiser can 2. NameSys was largely driven by the fame (infamy?) of it's owner - a typical mad scientist geek who writes excellent code. But he got himself in jail and the risk associated with using his filesystem sans reliable know maintainer is too great a risk for most distros -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
